The Gospel of Judas:Irenaeus notes: They produce a fictitious history of this kind, which
they style the Gospel of
Judas. There are other Gnostic sects associated which begin
really in the garden of Eden where the serpent (a Musical Enchanter)
wholly seduced Eve so that "Cain was OF that wicked one." Cain is
derived from "A Musical Note" and his family fathered all of the
COMMERCIAL and "magical" practices to steal other people's
property.

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Christians have been
seeking to turn every symbol (mark IDOL)
to the glory of God.
Thus a midwinter festival to the s-u-n
was converted into a day of rejoicing over the S-o-n of God. If Jesus is described by biblical writers as
the "Sunof
Righteousness" and God's "true light coming into the world," what could be more natural?

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This page does not expand upon
the fact that the primary "gods" were originally the erratic heavenly
bodies including the Sun, Moon and the known planets. The world's
literature is aware of a much less stable world and the elements
which controlled their lives were seen as living powers. Lesser gods
were deified men and women who made it to god status because of some
great invention of control devices such as canals, dikes, weapons or
musical instruments.

The Bible also personifies
God's power by explaining His "Spirit" or Mind as hovering over the
waters; God "walks upon the wings of the wind." And His ministers are
"wind, fire, earthquakes, etc." Because God is invisible we see His
work in the natural world. Job (27:1; 29:1) speaks of the creative
events as "parables" and Jesus said that the mysteries of God were
hidden in parables from the foundation of the world (Matthew 13). It
is important to understand that mountains do not "praise" God and
trees do not "clap their hands."

Beliefs and practices of the
Sumerians and Akkadians, and their successors, the Babylonians and
Assyrians, who inhabited ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) in the
millennia before the Christian era. These religious beliefs and
practices form a single stream of tradition.

Four periods of Sumerian can be distinguished: Archaic Sumerian, Old or
Classical Sumerian, New Sumerian, and Post-Sumerian.

Archaic Sumerian covered a
period from about 3100 BC, when the first Sumerian records make their
appearance, down to about 2500 BC. The earliest Sumerian writing is
almost exclusively represented by texts of business and
administrative character. There are also school texts in the form of
simple exercises in writing signs and words. The Archaic Sumerian
language is still very poorly understood, partly because of the
difficulties surrounding the reading and interpretation of early
Sumerian writing and partly because of the meagreness of sources.

Akkadianspread across an area extending from the
Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf during the time of Sargon
(Akkadian Sharrum-kin) of the Akkad dynasty, who reigned from about
2334 to about 2279 BC. By about 2000 Akkadian had supplanted Sumerian
as the spoken language of southern Mesopotamia, although Sumerian
remained in use as the written language of sacred
literature

Sumerian in origin,it was
added to and subtly modified by the Akkadians (Semites who emigrated into Mesopotamia from the
west at the end of the 4th millennium BC), whose own beliefs were in
large measure assimilated to, and integrated with, those of their new
environment.

The
Hurriansenter the
orbit of ancient Middle Eastern civilization toward the end of the
3rd millennium BC. They arrived in Mesopotamia from the north or the
east, but it is not known how long they had lived in the peripheral
regions. There is a brief inscription in Hurrian language from the
end of the period of Akkad, while that of King Arishen (or Atalshen)
of Urkish and Nawar is written in Akkadian.

Amorite:member of an ancient Semitic-speaking people who
dominated the history of Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine from about
2000 to about 1600 BC. In the oldest cuneiform sources (c. 2400-c.
2000 BC), the Amorites were equated with the West, though their true
place of origin was most likely Arabia, not Syria. They were
troublesome nomads and were believed to be one of the causes of the
downfall of the 3rd dynasty of Ur (c. 2112-c. 2004 BC).

The Kassites in Babylonia:The Kassites had settled by 1800 BC in
what is now western Iran in the region of Hamadan-Kermanshah. The
first to feel their forward thrust was Samsuiluna, who had to repel
groups of Kassite invaders. Increasing numbers of Kassites gradually
reached Babylonia and other parts of Mesopotamia. There they founded
principalities, of which little is known. No inscription or document
in the Kassite language has been preserved. Some 300 Kassite words
have been found in Babylonian documents. Nor is much known about the
social structure of the Kassites or their culture. There seems to
have been no hereditary kingdom. Their religion was polytheistic; the
names of some 30 gods are known.

Chaldea:also spelled CHALDAEA, Assyrian KALDU, BABYLONIAN
KASDU, Hebrew KASDDIM, land in southern Babylonia (modern southern
Iraq) frequently mentioned in the Old Testament. Strictly speaking,
the name should be applied to the land bordering the head of the
Persian Gulf between the Arabian desert and the Euphrates delta.
Words related to the Chaldeans shows that the word is synonynous with
"Astrologers, Magi, Sorcerers, and musical magicians" because of
their discovery of the god-calling power of ringing brass or
vibrating strings.